William Ellery Channing writes to Ralph Waldo Emerson:
I regret not having seen our forester-Thoreau, yesterday; his face would have been welcome to me . . . Now then, with the blessing of God, upon yourself, & Elizabeth [Sherman Hoar], & all other of the saints, & my fisherman [Nathaniel] Hawthorne, & the forester, & all those tutal figures, who move piously among the now bare bought, of a once populous summer-foliage.
(Studies in the American Renaissance 1989, 179)
